The House voted in favor of sex change operations for transgender soldiers.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said:

“By recruiting and allowing transgender individuals to serve in our military we are subjecting taxpayers to high medical costs including up to $130,000 per transition surgery, lifetime hormone treatments, and additional surgeries to address the high percentage of individuals who experience complications,” added Hartzler. She noted surgeries alone could cost $1.35 billion over the next 10 years. For perspective, examples of other things the DoD could spend $1.35 billion on include 13 F-35's, 14 Super Hornet F-18’s, 2 B-21 long-range strike bombers, 8 KC-46's, all A-10 wing replacements or increased end strength of our troops.”

The vote was on Hartzler’s House Amendment 183. The purpose was “to prohibit funds for medical treatment (other than mental health treatment) related to gender transition to a person entitled to medical care under chapter 55 of title 10, U.S. code.”

It failed. The noes are for sex change operations funded by the taxpayers.

It’s really incredible. This means the House voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay to cut off a man’s genitalia and a women’s breasts.

In fairness, some of the Republicans voting for the Obama policy did so because they thought they were leaving it in the hands of Defense Secretary Mattis. Mattis is giving the military chiefs six months to conduct a review of the policy. So there is still hope.

According to the Daily Caller, here are the 24 names of the Republicans voting for the Obama trans policy:

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